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HB2173 • 2025

Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that endangers another person.

Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that endangers another person.

Crime
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Helfrich
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that endangers another person.

Digest: The Act creates a new crime when a person unlawfully uses drugs in an enclosed space.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act creates a new crime when a person unlawfully uses drugs in an enclosed space.
  • The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
  • Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that endangers another person.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act creates a new crime when a person unlawfully uses drugs in an enclosed space. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that endangers another person. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' jail, $6,250 fine, or both, or five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, for a second or subsequent conviction.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to controlled substance crimes; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2173
Sponsored by Representative HELFRICH (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act creates a new crime when a person unlawfully uses drugs in an enclosed space.
The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in an enclosed place in a manner that en-
dangers another person. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days’ jail, $6,250 fine, or both, or five years’
imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, for a second or subsequent conviction.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to controlled substance crimes; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 475.752 to
475.980.
SECTION 2. (1) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly or intentionally use a controlled
substance in an enclosed space that is open to the public in a manner that endangers another
person.
(2)(a) Violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, violation of this section is a Class
C felony if the person has a prior conviction under this section at the time of the offense.
SECTION 3.
This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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